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Thursday, September 06, 2012
Truest Line of the Night
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The American people have been looking for quick fixes for the economy, maybe because we've grown to feel entitled to good times all the time and are used to instant gratification. But the economy doesn't turn on a dime. You don't suffer the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression and then bounce right back 3 or even 4 years later.
Most people alive today don't remember or even known much about the 1930s but took the US the better part of that decade to recover from the Great Depression. We shouldn't expect this recovery to be done in a matter of months even though Obama has put us on the right road. That's not about making excuses, it's about living in reality.
J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
The views expressed on WataugaWatch are solely those of J.W. Williamson or individual contributors and are not necessarily shared nor endorsed by the Watauga County Democratic Party nor by any other adults of sound mind in this or any other universe.
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The American people have been looking for quick fixes for the economy, maybe because we've grown to feel entitled to good times all the time and are used to instant gratification. But the economy doesn't turn on a dime. You don't suffer the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression and then bounce right back 3 or even 4 years later.
Most people alive today don't remember or even known much about the 1930s but took the US the better part of that decade to recover from the Great Depression. We shouldn't expect this recovery to be done in a matter of months even though Obama has put us on the right road. That's not about making excuses, it's about living in reality.
We would have recovered faster, as did the rest of the world, except for F.D.R.'s policies. Read the "Forgotten Man".
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